Is buying a 3.4ghz Extreme edtion SKT 478 worth it

Livestrong · 13 Sep 2006 at 15:43

M8 is offering a skt 478 3.4ghz extreme edtion for £70 I have all the stuff to make another machine is it really worth £70

anyone know how fast this is to the current cpu's

could save the £70 toward's a new part for my up and coming machine

gurusan · 13 Sep 2006 at 15:44

...I'd save your money for a Conroe build.

rgzcampbell · 13 Sep 2006 at 15:47

If it is a genuine 3.4ghz extreme edition for £70 I would buy it. Granted the slowest conroe will beat it in every benchmark but it is still a very capable CPU.

Even if you don't use it you will make your money back and more on egay.

Livestrong · 13 Sep 2006 at 15:51

i'll have alook make sure it's a 3.4ghz Ex Edition Cpu see what it can overclock to

Durzel · 13 Sep 2006 at 16:01

I suppose you could hope to get about 4Ghz from it, but even then it would still be spanked by the slowest Conroe by a country mile.

Ask your mate why he's selling it - it's probably to buy a Conroe himself

the.m · 13 Sep 2006 at 16:07

Still a v good chip and worth £70 all day

UKTopGun · 13 Sep 2006 at 16:10

Buy it for £70 and sell it on for like £140 on popular auction sites

ATIorNvidia · 13 Sep 2006 at 19:16

70 is well worth it, buy buy buy

Livestrong · 13 Sep 2006 at 23:23

had a look on his pc using cpu z it's a 3.4ghz Ex Edition he's still got the receipt with all items box and so on.

I bought the cpu

should have it out over the weekend, may not be the best cpu now still good for a back up machine.

pumpman · 13 Sep 2006 at 23:36

id keep it locked up may become a collectors item one day

Sir Random · 14 Sep 2006 at 14:50

There are still plenty of people with Skt 478 rigs, and the 3.4EE is the ultimate upgrade for that platform, so there will still be a market for that chip for a good while yet.

sargatanas · 14 Sep 2006 at 15:24

People underrate the socket 478 cpus, i know theyre not the fastest, but my [email protected] still is more than enough for anything i throw at it. Good processor and well worth £70

Minstadave · 14 Sep 2006 at 15:49

For £70 ish you can't do much better on S478, S939 has some good second hand bargains at that price (Just got a 4200 X2 for £70), but you'd need to change mobo too.

Mitch007 · 14 Sep 2006 at 18:41

i just got a 3.2 Extreme 1 meg L2 cach, 800MHz FSB at auction for 60 quid...

sig quotes benchies with this beast running...

stigggeh · 14 Sep 2006 at 19:08

Mitch007 said:
i just got a 3.2 Extreme 1 meg L2 cach, 800MHz FSB at auction for 60 quid...

sig quotes benchies with this beast running...

you have been robbed if it was sold as an extreme edition.

its just a standard prescott .. hence 1mb L2

matt100 · 15 Sep 2006 at 00:05

didn't they do an extreme edition on the northwood core?

edit: ignore me, the 3.2EE seems to have 2mb l1 from what i can see?

dobbs2010 · 15 Sep 2006 at 00:51

matt100 said:
didn't they do an extreme edition on the northwood core?

edit: ignore me, the 3.2EE seems to have 2mb l1 from what i can see?

The S478 3.2EE should have 512k L2 and 2mb L3. I'm not 100% but I think they were based on the Gallatin core aswell instead of the Northwood.

matt100 · 15 Sep 2006 at 00:53

dobbs2010 said:
The S478 3.2EE should have 512k L1 and 2mb L2.

I'm so crap.. you're right.

either way, no mention of 1mb anywhere

james.miller · 15 Sep 2006 at 00:54

Mitch007 said:
i just got a 3.2 Extreme 1 meg L2 cach, 800MHz FSB at auction for 60 quid...

sig quotes benchies with this beast running...

surely you can do better than that. i beat you in every benchmark ~('cept '06 obviously) in your sig with an x800gto2...

Mitch007 · 15 Sep 2006 at 08:55

james.miller said:
surely you can do better than that. i beat you in every benchmark ~('cept '06 obviously) in your sig with an x800gto2...

that's an easy thing to say unless you post how...

Was robbed...... Chip id'd on intel web page, comes back with 3.20E Ghz 90nm 1 MB L2 cache (my CPU is SL7PN)